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Binary asteroids' puzzling configurations may link to multi-satellite history
- June 11, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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Binary asteroid systems are widespread throughout our inner solar system. For decades, the standard paradigm held that many of them form when a rapidly spinning primary asteroid casts off material, which then reaccumulates into an elongated moon orbiting near the Roche limit.
Originally published at Phys.org